Over the past week or so the World’s press have been focusing heavily on the recently announced 9й July Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko WBO-WBA-IBO Unified Heavyweight Championships rematch. Quite rightly so, it’s a huge fight, however just one week earlier, an equally World significant unification bout is also set to take place right here in the United Kingdom.
В Июле 2й, at the Arena UK in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Всемирная #15 and British #1 ranked Marianne Marston will not only be challenging South Africa’s World Boxing Federation (WBFed) Super Bantamweight World Champion Gabisile Tshabalala for her coveted crown, but will also be aiming to secure the World Boxing Union (ВСС), Международная ассоциация любительского бокса женщин в (WIBA) and Universal Boxing Organization (УБО) World accolades.
London based Marston, who was originally due to challenge Unathi Myekeni for the Bantamweight version of the WBFed strap back in December, that was until Myekeni was forced to withdraw following a hand injury, is cleary relishing the belated opportunity, как она сделала ясно, когда она говорила ранее.
“I cannot thank WBFed President Howard Goldberg enough for making this happen, like me he was so dissapointed when Unathi (Myekeni) pulled out injured last year.
In addition to Howard, I would also lke to thank WIBA President Ryan Wissow, WBU President Don Lewis and Sebastien Pitois from the UBO, as they have been so supportive throughout my career, so to also challenge for their Championships really is so special for me.
I’m forty two now, so honestly thought after Unathi pulled out, that’s it for me, I’ll never get the chance to fight for a World title, OK that’s not quite true, I could have fought for a vacant title, but to me that’s just not good enough, Я хочу драться с лучшими, I want to beat the World Champion.
I’ve seen video of Gabisile, when she fought Shannon (О'Коннелл) в 2013, but would very much like to find any video of her when she won the World title last year. I know how much I have changed, fight wise, с 2013 so really want to see if there are any changes to her style or tactics.
Из того, что я видел, she’s a classy fighter, very quick hands. When she fought Shannon, she was mainly counter punching, which would suit me, but for some reason I have a feeling she will have a very different approach as a defending Champion.
В любом случае, this will be a great fight for the fans, there’s such a contrast in our styles and in my view it’s those differences in style and tactical approach that will make this such a great fight to watch.
British boxing is booming, we have so many World Champions at the moment, Тайсон Фьюри, Энтони Джошуа, Келл Брук, Карл Frampton, Ли Селби, Лиам Смит, Джейми Макдоннелл, Ли Хаскинс, Тони Моран, Крейг Дохерти, Терри Фланаган, Энтони Crolla, James DeGale and of course my old gym mate at the TKO, Билли Джо Сондерс.
Obviously they’re all men, so I want to redress the deficit a little and join them, as well as be the first British Female boxer to be crowned World Champion since Jane Couch beat Jaime Clampitt for the IWBF title in 2004.”
Gabisile Tshabalala Vs Marianne Marston for the WBFed, ВСС, WIBA and UBO Super Bantamweight Unified World Championship headlines the Russ Brown promoted AS GOOD AS IT GETS event at the Arena UK in Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK on Saturday 2й Июль.
This event is sanctioned by the British & Ирландский боксерский орган (BIBA) www.boxbiba.com
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